Identifier: fortyimmortalsof00worc (find matches)
Title: Forty immortals of Worcester & its county. A brief account of those natives or residents who have accomplished something for their community or for the nation
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Worcester Bank & Trust Company, Worcester, Mass Walton Advertising and Printing Company, Boston
Subjects: Worcester (Mass.) -- Biography Worcester County (Mass.) -- Biography
Publisher: (Boston, Mass. : Walton advertising & printing company)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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is few earthly possessions ina handkerchief and trudged from Boston to Worcester—in order to seethe wonderful library where books might be read for the asking. He secured work at a local forge where he was given $12 a monthwages. Slowly his fame as a linguist spread, until one day a manuscriptapparently written in Danish was brought to him for translation. Har-vard had given it up—and after some difficulty Burritt succeeded intranslating the strange account of a vessel that had been wrecked on theSouth Sea Islands. The paper proved to be written in the dialect of thenatives, and Boston underwriters awaited the story which Mr. Burrittproduced. This and other successes gave the young linguist the courageto write to William Lincoln of Worcester, offering his services as a trans-lator of German. The communication greatly impressed Mr. Lincoln,and he saw that it reached the hands of Governor Edward Everett, whoread it before a Teachers Institute, and there gave Burritt the name that 43
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FORTY IMMORTALS of W ORCESTER & ITS COUNTY has come down in history—the Learned Blacksmith. Boston papersprinted the Everett speech; other papers copied it; and shortly after-wards an opportunity came for the young blacksmith to lecture in variousplaces. He also was connected with the Christian Citizen, a weekly paperpublished in Worcester, devoted to temperance, self-culture, anti-slavery,and peace. This is said to be the first publication in America giving defi-nite space to the cause of peace. The idea of international peace tookpossession of Elihu Burritts mind. So saturated was he with the ideathat in 1846, feeling that he had a message for Europe, he sailed on theHibernia. His League of Peace mission which had taken firm root inAmerica was destined to bear rich fruit across the Atlantic. He wasgiven a royal reception in England, and the League which he formed therewas called The League of Universal Brotherhood. Peace congresses wereheld at Brussels, Paris, Frankfort-on-the

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